NJPW Road to The New Beginning 2026 - Day 1

The first night of Road to The New Beginning 2026 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on January 19, 2026, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan, marking the opening of the 2026 Young Lion Cup and featuring two first-round matches of the tournament. The show was headlined by Taichi & Tomohiro Ishii vs. RoughStorm (Shota Umino & Yuya Uemura) in an IWGP Tag Team Title #1 Contendership Match.

Cast: Maki Taichiro, Tomohiro Ishii, Shota Umino, Yuya Uemura, Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa, Luke James Uggles Eatwell, Hirooki Goto

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.